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[tor-project] Anti-censorship team meeting notes, 2022-04-28



Hey everyone!

Here are our meeting logs:
http://meetbot.debian.net/tor-meeting/2022/tor-meeting.2022-04-28-15.58.html

And our meeting pad:

Anti-censorship work meeting pad
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Next meeting: Thursday May 5th 16:00 UTC

Weekly meetings, every Thursday at 16:00 UTC, in #tor-meeting at OFTC (channel is logged while meetings are in progress)

== Goal of this meeting ==

Weekly check-in about the status of anti-censorship work at Tor.
Coordinate collaboration between people/teams on anti-censorship at Tor.

== Links to Useful documents ==

    * Our anti-censorship roadmap:
        * Roadmap: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/boards
    * The anti-censorship team's wiki page:
        * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/wikis/home
    * Past meeting notes can be found at:
        * https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-project/
    * Tickets that need reviews:  from sponsors we are working on:
        * All needs review tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/anti-censorship/-/merge_requests?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&assignee_id=None
        * Sponsor 28
            * must-do tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/10             * possible tickets: https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/issues?scope=all&utf8=%E2%9C%93&state=opened&label_name%5b%5d=Sponsor%2028&milestone_title=None
        * Sponsor 96
            * https://gitlab.torproject.org/groups/tpo/-/milestones/24

== Announcements ==

    * polyanthum & gettor-01 will be upgraded next week, the servers where bridgedb,rdsys,gettor and other anti-censorship infra is hosted

== Discussion ==

    * Distributed Snowflake Server Support
        * Any feedbacks?
        * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40129#note_2797319
        * No blocker issue discovered.
        * will first deploy the new broker, and give time for proxies to update
    * removed smallerRichard builtin server
        * https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/team/-/issues/44
    * RKS hackathon
        * (Discussion Skipped)

== Actions ==

    *

== Interesting links ==

    * https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/kazakhstan-shut-down-its-internet-these-programmers-opened-a-backdoor/
    * https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/114

== Reading group ==

    * We will discuss "Blocking of HTTP/3 (QUIC) in Russia" on Apr/28th/2022
        * https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3487552.3487836
        * https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/108
        * Questions to ask and goals to have:
            * What aspects of the paper are questionable?
            * Are there immediate actions we can take based on this work?
            * Are there long-term actions we can take based on this work?
            * Is there future work that we want to call out, in hopes that others will pick it up?

== Updates ==

Name:
    This week:
        - What you worked on this week.
    Next week:
        - What you are planning to work on next week.
    Help with:
         - Something you need help with.

anadahz: 2022-01-27
    Last week:
        - Increase timeout check cycles for default-bridge-felix-1 and default-bridge-felix-2 as they have been generating too many alerts: https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/monit-configuration/-/merge_requests/1

cecylia (cohosh): last updated 2022-04-14
Last week:
    - moved tor-specific snowflake code out of client library (snowflake#40124)
        - merge request: snowflake!85
    - bump version of webrtc dependency (snowflake#40127)
        - merge request: snowflake!86
    - commented on snowflake web workflow (snowflake#40125)
    - opened issue to bump version of snowflake and webrtc in tor browser (tor-browser-build#40474)
    - work on conjure test environment setup
This week:
    - continue work on conjure PT
    - continue snowflake maintenance tasks
Needs help with:

dcf: 2022-04-28
    Last week:
        - made graphs of the snowflake bridge since the server move 2 weeks ago https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40111#note_2799042
    Next week:
        - look at STATUS VERSION proposal https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/merge_requests/63         - set up access control on the snowflake-02 bridge https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40122#note_2797271
    Help with:

arlolra: 2022-04-07
    Last week:
        - Merged the rest of snowflake !81
    Next week:
      - Get to snowflake-webext #10
    Evergreen:
        - Figure out where in pion/webrtc ALPN should be configured and used
        - Maybe add Chacha20Poly1305 to pion/dtls
        https://github.com/pion/dtls#planned-features
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40014#note_2764731
    Help with:
        -

maxb: 2021-09-23
    Last week:
        - Worked on https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/40054 re: utls for broker negotiation         - Had conversation with someone about upstream utls http round tripper https://github.com/refraction-networking/utls/pull/74
        - Too busy with work :/
    Next week:
        - _Really_ want to get a PR for utls round tripper

meskio: 2022-04-28
    Last week:
            - use bridgestrap results to select what bridges to distribute (rdsys#96)
            - give rdsys a free software license (rdsys#107)
            - removed smallerRichard builtin bridge (team#44)
            - brainstorm on dnstt (trac#40001)
    Next week:
            - deploy telegram in rdsys (rdsys#101)
            - advance on the onionsproutsbot deployment

Shelikhoo: 2022-04-28
   Last Week:
        - [Merge Request Awaiting] Add SOCKS5 forward proxy support to snowflake (snowflake!64)           - [Coding & Deployment] Proposal: Centralized Probe Result Collector (anti-censorship/team#54)
          - [Discussion] Centralized Probe Log Collection Ascension Request
          - [Discussion] Hosting Centralized Probe Log Collection Server on TPA managed VPS           - [Discussion] Proposal: Support for Dynamic IP obfs4 bridges with unattended proxy information update(aka "Subscription")
          - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges - Broker
          - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges Testing Environment - Dockerlized
          - [Deployment] Distributed Snowflake Bridges Testing Broker
   Next Week:
          - [Coding] Distributed Snowflake Bridges (continue)
          - [Research] Implement metrics to measure snowflake churn(https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/snowflake/-/issues/34075)
          - [Research] Blocking of Snowflake in Turkmenistan, 2021-10-24

Itchy Onion: 2022-04-28
    Last week:
        - debugged a RACE 2.1.0 issue
        - had a meeting with Georgetown folks (a recurring meeting to go over each other's channel code)
    This week:
        - go over snowflake code (in preparation for the next Georgetown meeting and also help with rebase snowflake rebasing)
        - go over RACECAR docs

HackerNCoder: 2021-12-16
This week:
    Last/done:
        Setup web mirror on tor.encryptionin.space
    Next:
        Get (new VPs with) new IP and setup new web mirror on new domain

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